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of this legislation the market association and the arab successor and the chamber of commerce and also, we want to thank the small business owner commission for their unanimous support. thank you. the last item was unanimous were item 48 >> item 48 is ordinance is a lounge located at gary boulevard with the convenience of the city and a same house, same call. >> item 49 a resolution with the transfer of an off sale of the general license to best
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doing business as city target will serve the community and a colleagues can we take this same house, same call. this resolution is adopted >> item 50 is a motion at an election to be held on ordinance amendment the any of us code allowing the employees to ask for flexible working hours. >> colleagues i appreciate our consideration of our family friendly ordinance. all of us probably a number of times every year are asked what we're doing for families and while the city has helped to build affordable housing we know there's more we can do. this is a proposal that can be
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more of a solution. in years i've heard from parents juggling daycare and childcare and soccer and decreases appointment. 90 percent of those folks have surveyed conflict environments. this is something i and many of us have thought about as we've thought about raising families. because of single-family households and women entering the workplace this traditional family only make ups one out of
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5 families but the expectations the care has not changed. we looked around the world for policies. in 2007 there were 3 united states senators then senators hillary clinton, ted kennedy and barack obama that proposed in congress a flexible work environment. they having asked for changes in job shifts and to tell commute or share a job. this came from other countries like great britain and ireland and new zealand where this policy has been an excellent one.
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it adds a penny to the expense of an employer if the employer is unable to make clients services or other good faith services they're able to deny the requests. it would be enforced and it will apply to all caregivers.
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but based on feedback we've expanded this measure to care of of not only their children but take care of a spouse or domestic care imperative. their taking care of of their parents like many elder adults. when we centered. some of this limits the employees who are laerg than 20 employees and for employees that have worked at least 8 human resources a week. and i appreciate that with those
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all the times the business community no longer opposed those measures. i'm recommending we move it forward. when we have discussions for working families we had two goals around this legislation. to make sure we were educating the public and we've done that. i would mention in the last couple of weeks our democratic leader nancy pelosi is talking about the measures and a also hillary clinton. the second thing the advocates want to make sure we got this passed. it was unclear if we needed a majority around the ballot.
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i want to thank the mayor because he said heel sign the version. let me make that clear we have the votes to place that on the ballot and we know it received the support of many of the san franciscans. this will allow us to get this done faster. i plan during roll call to introduce an ordinance that is exactly what we have hear and hope to move it to pass it in september with an date of january the first. this is a direction we want to go so we can have legislation for that. i want to thank the team from the employment and library for
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the city attorney's office and the office of labor standards enforcement and the department of health and the small business commission and the feedback we've received from the orchestras. as far as the organizations i want to thank the law clinics from law schools and a better balance and the work and families coalition also here in san francisco i want to thank the advisory council and the united food and commercial workers and the gender appreciative issues. as well as supervisors yee and supervisor breed who has offered to support this issue. i want to take a moment and
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thank my aid keating republican who worked around the clock. and with that colleagues i'd like to ask if we could send this motion back to committee and in case anything unexpected happens but as i said today, i want to introduce this what date of january 1st >> colleagues the president has made a motion to send this back to the rules committee. i have a second from supervisor avalos >> i want to thank supervisor avalos i'll be adding this afternoon. >> item 51 is a motion appointing naomi to the entertainment empathies.
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>> colleagues supervisor wiener. i just want to say how great it is we're able to reappoint her to the entertainment commission. we appointed her last year she brings a strong public height to the empathies commission. it looks like she might move out of the city but i'm very, very happy she's going to be on the commission and a colleagues the last item being unanimously can we take this same house, same call >> we've completed all our special orders why don't we go to item 62 and this was considered on thursday and forwarded to the board as a committee report. it's a resolution to determine
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the type of 21 off sale general license to tenth street to the wine will be serviced for the night of the city >> colleagues same house, same call? item 63. >> it was considered by the land use committee on monday and was forwarded to the board as the committee report as a new title granting the revokeable title to the right-of-way to construct and maintain infrastructure for hospital operations at 825 jackson street. >> same house, same call this resolution is adopted. madam clerk let's go to roll call >> supervisor breed. >> i have one very important resolution today. supervisor cowen and i have introducing a resolution to
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support the historic recess of marcus bookstore. i know that folks have reached out to you this has been a challenging issue. we all know that marcus brooks. this is the first place i bought my first book but this is a community place. i want to go through that history to talk about why it's so important that we as a city get actively engaged to do whatever he can to insure some protection for this historical building. i'm introducing this resolution to peruser the marcus bookstore which was jim both city building and to urge that's current
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owners to have someone uphold the building. founded by marcus brooks he's the an icon in japan neighborhoods and is a renounced center. marcus books has been a meeting place for organizations like west side community services and the development organization and the black panthers and the 17968 strishgz at san francisco state college. the store has hosted incredible icon like rosa parks and james baldwin and malcolm x. marcus books is a historic treasure in our community who's
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future are under factory attack. the building opened its doors in 1953 and it was founded as a jazz place. bill holiday and other go placed at jim bosses city. it's not an compensation to say that the building helped put fill more on the map. and yet in the 1960s the san francisco redemonstrate agency tried to remove the map and trying to demolish it but a diverse group of folks came together and the house was literally picked up and hauled
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to its new locations. although many vindicate to be sworn were sealed destroyed. ful from there it continued it's historic america's. the business and it's buildings are a tests time to our legacy of the japanese communities but now the building has fallen into the hands of an owner who is not interested in keeping marcus books as a tenant in the building. with this resolution i and members of the community join here today are asking the new owners to sell the building to someone who will maine maintain that. i want to thank you all the debt is inspiring and there's truly
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too many folks to thank. not a day goes bay by when someone is asking me about the bookstore and what they can do to help it. it nearly escaped the demolition then as annoy this community treasure will survive with the western sport of the broader san francisco community. our resolution is demonstrating that today and i hope you all will join us in supporting in recessing resolution to do everything we can to try to save this invaluable constitution not only for the african-american community but for the history of our great city
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>> thank you madam clerk. i'd like to thank inspire breed and cowen for introducing that and i want to be added as a co- sponsor. unfortunately, it's something that's happening throughout the city including neighborhood in just about every district. i have one item today and it's with a heavy heart that i am doing a memorial of alicia ross kari she's been focused on historic education in 1983. an architect by trade she's been pioneered by use and was on the
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preservation board. she believed that historic preservation was is a key to a better life in our city because of the sense of history that the preservation can provided. in her firm she brought together addition and preservation planners who share her he unwaiver commitment to practices. based on in san francisco her firm body of work has expanded to include other states like i nevada and utah and wyoming and new hampshire. it's an award winning architecture firm that has won several award.
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alicia ross keri has had here violation to the rehabilitation of well known landmarks in this city including san francisco city hall this very building the pat as of fine arts and the opera house and the mar community building. she's vote and well known and active in the preservation community. she served on the board of supervisors of any historic organizations including the capital commission and the san francisco landmark preservation board and san francisco beautiful and the oakland house board and she was most recently open the boards of the college of environmental destine at u.s. berkley as well as the heritage
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and the 640 foundation. it's truly a great loss for our community and this city and our hearts go out to her husband of many years so i ask we adjourn the meeting in the memory of alicia >> thank you first of all, as i mention before i. introducing the family friendly workplace through the legislative for a vote in september. i'm introducing today a resolution in support of the recollections for local and state reform of changes that were made from the assessable committee which is made up of many advocates working with the mayor's office on disability.
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many residents have heard stories of placard abuse. i believe those recommendations can increase access while promoting fairness while reducing abuse. i know that people with disabilities are paying the price. there are disability advocates and worked closely with the mayor's office. according to the mathematical san francisco has twice as many brakes with hundreds of thousands of brakes issued by other bay city's. they suggest that plagued abuse it common place and they confiscate several brakes every year. enforcement is not enough we
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need the right rules to stimulate the right behavior. and brakes should help the disabled and that's why we have the number of unmetered blue spots adding many more spots. i want to have enforcement easier with increased oversight by the dmv and making the plagued photos available. another recommendation is out of the advisory committee is disability brakes shouldn't mean parking for unlimited time which is law school san francisco to requirement meter payments. i'm committed to working with the mayor's office and office of disability to push those
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remedies forward and hope when we consider this in september i will as well. the rest of my items i'll submit >> thank you madam clerk. today optimum introducing an ordinance that is upon the data performance having more strict deadlines creating a strategy for residents of san francisco to gain access to their own data and protection for the residents of our city. this ordinance is from the president obama ordinance that just wants the data policy. this ordinance takes from and takes data from president obama's strategy that used technology to improve and make a
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difference in people's lives. i'm introducing this because we know that the resources by making them useable in the community we can help fuel entrepreneurship. and this will continue to create jobs in san francisco. plastic one thing a new officer b will be responsible for drafting rules and common technical standards such as data being available and that's in conjunction with the city attorney's office. since the city is also are not only for the data they will be on systems so people can
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assessing access they're on medical records or permanent plagues. the data is intended to transform the individual data for the services in san francisco. it follows a national movement to give residents access to their own data. it establishes technical glz for the data coordinator. this will make the data more assessable. the date will be released and the documents for rp s and licensing requirement. the data will be available in memorandum and other formats using the most update standards. the following deadlines are
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going to be effected. winning within a month the mayor is going to appoint a chief officer to oversee the policy within his or her department. and they will have access to the data. within six months the department should publish a catalog that can be available. within one year the chief data officer shall present a plan to help the board of supervisors and the mayor. those deadlines insure with remain educational to the community so the public is made readily aware. one of the priorities of the united states in office is to
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improve the efficiency in office. i want to thank all my staff and in a particular to hannah who's taken the lead. and i want to thank other folks on this update that is based on the ordinance. i look forward to look at this when we reasonable person from recess >> supervisor mar. >> today, i'm introducing legislation that will help clean up our retail city controls. i know that other colleagues are working on neighborhood based efforts but f this is a citywide effort of neighborhood leaders which of them who worked on the
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historic prop g campaign that was to protect our neighborhood character and protect small businesses and allow for diversity in our city. this will build upon other issues and it will expand upon them. and it follows a recommendation by the planning department that structural issues be applied citywide. and to add in financial decisions is a part of it with small business owners as well. it expands the formula retail to apply to 11 or more outlets worldwide and it expands the definition to expand the
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definition of 50 percent that are owned by other retail businesses. and to include a series of retail uses that have not been included until now acquit quote adults entertainment toothbrush paraphernalia and other. the ordinance requires that for last year big box stores for example, the planning department sees the impact on others businesses in the area so it would require a report. p that would mean they need a report. and finally for retail application it requires more internet notice prior to